This week the Globe explores five places in the Greater Toronto Area where the past and the future intersect, where social, cultural and infrastructural change has begun and will accelerate in the New Year. We visit Little India at Highfield Rd. And Gerrard St. East, The Junction at Quebec Avenue and Dundas Street West, Don Mills at Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East, Milton at Regional Road 25 and Louis Saint Laurent Ave. and Corktown at River Street and King Street.